- Title
- Ontological Bourdieu: a reply to Simon Susen
- Creator
- Adkins, Lisa
- Relation
- Social Epistemology Vol. 27, Issue 3-4, p. 295-301
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2013.818740
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- In “Bourdieusian reflections on language: Unavoidable conditions of the real speech situation”, Simon Susen proposes that Bourdieu’s account of language is based on a number of ontological presuppositions. While the extensive commentary on Bourdieu’s analysis of language tends to bracket these assumptions—not least because of an enduring attachment to the “sociological Bourdieu”—Susen insists that a recognition of the ontological features of language is consistent with Bourdieu’s own writings. While Susen’s ontological retrieval may be controversial, especially to those attached to the “sociological Bourdieu”, in this reply I suggest that in “Bourdieusian reflections on language” we find something more interesting than any such controversy. Specifically, Susen’s ontological retrieval opens out Bourdieu’s oeuvre to currents in the social sciences which question the limits of the sociology of the social in the context of an increasingly ontological life. In this reply, I ask how Susen’s “ontological Bourdieu” fares in a dialogue with this body of work.
- Subject
- Bourdieu; experience; language; social theory; ontological; post-hermeneutic; Susen; transcendence
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1056425
- Identifier
- uon:16040
- Identifier
- ISSN:1464-5297
- Language
- eng
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